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Nicander of
Colophon (Gr****: Νίκανδρος ὁ Κολοφώνιος, translit. Níkandros ho Kolophṓnios; fl. 2nd
century BC), Gr**** poet,
physician and grammarian, was...
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Xenosoma nicander is a moth in the
subfamily Arctiinae first described by
Herbert Druce in 1886. It is
found in
Costa Rica and Panama. Savela,
Markku (ed...
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Nicander (Gr****: Νίκανδρος,
reigned from c. 750 to c. 725 BC) was king of
Sparta and a
member of the
Eurypontid dynasty.
Sparta was a diarchy,
having two...
- the
Stadion race in the 193rd
Olympiad (8 BC).
Nicander (Ancient Gr****: Νίκανδρος), also
known as
Nicander of
Thyateira (Ancient Gr****: Νίκανδρος ὁ Θυατειρηνός)...
- In a
rarer version,
surviving in the
scholia of an
unnamed scholiast on
Nicander,
whose works heavily influenced Ovid,
Arachne is
placed in
Attica instead...
- Θηριακά) is the
longest surviving work of the 2nd-century BC Gr**** poet
Nicander of Colophon. It is a 958-line
hexameter poem
describing the
nature of venomous...
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snake tails for legs below.
Aeschylus calls Typhon "fire-breathing". For
Nicander (2nd
century BC),
Typhon was a
monster of
enormous strength, and strange...
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November 5 -
Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar -
November 7 All
fixed commemorations below celebrated on
November 19 by
Eastern Orthodox Churches on...
- "men" or "people"),
describing Hades as the god who
carries away all.
Nicander uses the form
Hegesilaus (Ἡγεσίλαος, [hεː.geˈsi.la.os]). He was also referred...
- giant. Steph**** of
Byzantium attributed the
story to some lost work by
Nicander,
where he
apparently described Poseidon hurling two
blocks with his hands...
